Siraj holds rulers responsible for protests and sit-ins against them.

LAHORE -- Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Senator Sirajul Haq has held the rulers responsible for the protests and sit-ins against them, saying people are expressing anger because of wrong and directionless policies of the PTI government.

'No one but the government itself has compelled the traders, doctors, teachers and political activists to take to the streets against it. The anti-government agitations have put the ruling party under severe pressure,' said the Sirajul Haq while addressing the members of JI Youth Executive Council at Mansoora on Sunday.

JI Secretary General Ameerul Azim, JI Naib Ameer Liaqat Baloch and other leaders also attended the meeting. Senator Sirajul Haq said the politics and democracy were in the control of few families since the birth of Pakistan. The members of the same elite families were the part of every government no matter if it was a civilian or military rule, he added.

The JI chief said that those who expected the government would bring any change in the country were actually living in fool's paradise. Every member of the prime minister's team, he added, had served in Parvez Musharraf cabinet. So, he said, expecting miracles from the already tested faces was tantamount to deceiving oneself.

The country, said Sirajul Haq, was in the grip of capitalists and feudal lords and the PTI was the true representative of status quo. He said there...

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